The Great War

The Great War is a significant event in the history of Berondil, taking place 400 years ago. Before this time, the Kingdom of Beren led the world in peace with the other kingdoms. Ideas, peoples and trade flowed freely. Over the years leading up to the Great War, various kings became suspicious of their neighbors and other trading partners, for reasons which remain unknown. Some closed their borders, happy to be self-sufficient. But the peoples from other lands within these closed-off kingdoms were berated and faced humiliation or worse, causing tensions between those kingdoms and their homelands.

As time wore on, the the dwarven king Theram, who claimed the seat of Dol Morga, was the first to strike. They sent their ships to rain fire upon Vokasis on the northern continent of Velastil. As the Vokasi capital burned, northern nomads sensed their opportunity and swarmed into the country, sacking and pillaging. Those who remained retaliated by allying themselves with Ma'In in the western deserts of Ferontil. Their warships sailed for Dol Morga as Vokasis burned, but were intercepted by the elven fleet of Kalathu'el, with whom the dwarves of Dol Morga had an ancient pact. The Vokasi and Ma'In fleet survived, and went on to destroy the dwarves' docked ships and pulverize their rebuilt city.

Beren remained neutral as long as they could, but this inaction was soon seen as taking sides. Three years into the war, a spy found his way into the Berengrad court and assassinated King Andarien. Within the next year, each of the world's kings had been slain and their kingdoms brought to ruin.